U.S. Archdioceses and Dioceses on Twitter
[Update: Also, check out our list of (Arch)Dioceses on Facebook!]
For some time, I've been looking for a listing of Archdioceses with a presence on Twitter (I follow about 10 or so of them, but I know there are many more. I'm going to post all the ones I know of here, and hopefully people can find others that aren't listed here and post them in the comments below. I'll update this post as more are identified. Here's the list:
Archdioceses
- Archdiocese of Saint Louis, MO - @archstl
- Archdiocese of the Military - @MilArchUSA
- Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.) - @WashArchdiocese
- Archdiocese of New Orleans, LA - @archdioceseofno
- Archdiocese of Baltimore, MD - @archbalt
- Archdiocese of Milwaukee, WI - @archmil
- Archdiocese of Atlanta, GA - @archatl
- Archdiocese of Detroit, MI - @DetroitCatholic
- Archdiocese of Philadelphia, PA - @ArchCommPhila
- Archdiocese of Santa Fe, NM - @ArchSantaFeCBR
Dioceses
- Diocese of Arlington, VA - @arlingtonchurch
- Diocese of Knoxville, TN - @knoxdiocese
- Diocese of Saginaw, MI - @diosag
- Diocese of San Jose, CA - @DioceseSanJose
- Diocese of Camden, NJ - @camdendoc
- Diocese of Rochester, NY - @RochDiocese
- Diocese of Rockville Center, NY - @RVCDiocese
- Diocese of Buffalo, NY - @BuffaloDiocese
- Diocese of Ogdensburg, NY - @rcdogd
- Diocese of Manchester, NH - @CatholicNH
- Diocese of Winona, MN - @diocesewinona
- Diocese of Allentown, PA - @AllentownDioces
- Diocese of Cleveland, OH - @dioceseofcleve
- Diocese of Toledo, OH - @DioceseToledo
- Diocese of Green Bay, WI - @greenbaydiocese
- Diocese of Madison, WI - @MadisonDiocese
- Diocese of Brownsville, TX - @CatholicRGV
- Diocese of Honolulu, HI - @CatholicHawaii
Diocesan Newspapers/News
- Diocese of Tulsa, OK - @EOCNews
- St. Louis Review - @StlReviewEditor
- The Catholic Spirit (Saint Paul & Minneapolis) - @catholicspirit
- The Catholic Telegraph (Cincinnati) - @cathtelegraph
- The Georgia Bulletin (Atlanta) - @georgiabulletin
- The Catholic Chronicle (Toledo) - @CathChronicle
Tips for (Arch)Dioceses on Twitter
Just a few tips to help you guys make your Twitter accounts more valuable:
- Follow other people, especially those who have enough interest to follow you — but make sure that you don't blindly follow back others - you can choose to not follow someone/some organization if that person/organization shouldn't seem to be connected to you. Twitter is a social network—follows should be somewhat reciprocal...
- Post something to your Twitter account; at least a little welcome message. An empty account makes it look like you had a vision for a Twitter account, but didn't follow through.
- Tweet something - post something at least once a week or so. If nothing else, link your website's news feed to it using HootSuite. Give followers something to see!
- Read this article by @archstl - it has some good tidbits in it :-)












Comments
Many (arch)dioceses depend on the (arch)diocesan newspaper to fulfill the Twitter role. Thus, in Archdiocese of Cincinnati, it's @cathtelegraph. Perhaps these should be included also?
http://twitter.com/BarbaraKB
http://twitter.com/CatholicMeme
Good point! I think I'll stick another category in there: Diocesan newspapers and newsletters.
Jeff Geerling is a Saint Louis, MO web designer and developer. He runs LOLSaints as well as this website!
Please include us in Archdiocesan newspapers.
@catholicspirit
I'd love to get them all on TweetCatholic.com...then we'd have a dynamic list of them with current profile info.
Thanks for making the list, Jeff!
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@MatthewWarner - sure thing! We need to get up and organize (as the song goes...) @catholicspirit - you're there! Anyone else need to be added?
Jeff Geerling is a Saint Louis, MO web designer and developer. He runs LOLSaints as well as this website!
Thanks!
The Archdiocesan newspaper for the Archdiocese of St Paul/Minneapolis is @catholicspirit (The Catholic Spirit)
Please include the Catholic Chronicle, diocesan newspaper of the Diocese of Toledo, in your listing: @CathChronicle
@CathChronicle - you're on there now; thanks!
Advancing the faith.
Some of these are rather unmanned. @diocesewinona for example. Too bad there isn't a way to include the number of updates per each.
Maybe we could do some sort of API call and get it to update every day or something... but that's a bit too much for me to think about right now.
Advancing the faith.
OK...seriously, I'm not looking to give you more work than you bargained for on this site Jeff... :)
Maybe a page on this site that has the last 10 Tweets of all of these....but maybe this would be better for www.tweetcatholic.com ?
We tweet with our diocesan annual appeal! @CSA_Austin
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